At the request of the lovely Dextra, we have started playing D&D again after over a one year break. Because I was so burned out on the game last year, I agreed to run it again on condition that it wouldn't involve very much work on my part - that we would just use pre-published modules and run through them one by one and have fun at it.

So, GoodMan Games to the rescue. I go through a pile of the Dungeon Crawl Classic modules looking for a good one to start the game up. Finally, I crack open the DCC35 boxed set and pull out the level 0 adventure in there - about right or a bit weak for a group of 2 level 1 gestalt characters instead of 4-6 level 0 characters. It honestly reminded me of "B1 - In Search of the Unknown" in a few ways (such as the secret room with the magic pools) and that made a part of me very happy deep inside. Then when the team wanted to play again 2 days later, I pulled out DCC29 - a hardcover book with 20 level 1 modules in it and played the first one from there in a single 3 hour session. Finally, this last game I pulled out DCC28 - Into the Wilds. This one is a major throwback to the classic B2 - Keep on the Borderlands. The rumour about the goblin king's name is that it's "BreeYark", and the basic background is a mix of Keep on the Borderlands and Return to the Keep on the Borderlands, but with only 4 "caves" in the replacement for the Caves of Chaos (but 4 much more exciting caves, lots of 3D mapping, just the way I love it if you know my maps).

Oh yeah, and the villain who's name isn't BreeYark? He's a vampire. In a level 1-3 module. It rocks.

It's fun to be back in the dungeon for a while.